Re: Tearing my hair out (what's left of it...)

On 29 Mar 2005, at 14:45, Jamie Bliss wrote:

> $IP is the local path of the wiki. (shared or instance?).

Yup, this is the culprit. The installer makes this the hard link path 
to the wiki, probably by using getcwd().

I don't know how it could do it better. Certainly, bash tells me the 
path via how I got there, but MediaWiki installer has no such history.

It could display the path and ask the user to verify it during the 
installation. Or, it could simply require that you tell it the path. I 
surely would have changed it to the symlink path, had I the 
opportunity.

This may also cause problems for those running super-secure sites in a 
chroot(2, 8) jail.

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